PristupačnostYou can find the list of accessible databases in the corresponding scientific field. To access the databases, follow the link in the database title. Direct access to the databases is available through the University’s wired and wireless network, and access outside the University is possible with an AAI account (proxy).
For any questions or assistance in searching the databases, you can contact the librarians of the University Library of Pula directly, by phone (052 388 831, 052 213 888) or via email (skpu@unipu.hr).
You can also seek assistance at the departmental libraries of the University's constituent units:
- Library of the Faculty of Economics and Tourism (tel. 052/377-014; E-mail: fet-knjiznica@unipu.hr),
- Library of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences and the Academy of Music (tel. 052/377-518; E-mail: knjiznica-fm@unipu.hr),
- Library of the Faculty of Educational Sciences (tel. 052/377-551; E-mail: fooz-knjiznica@unipu.hr)
Quick links to databases:
SciFlow
SciFlow is a platform for helping to write scientific and other papers. Also, it is intended for our students through pre-prepared templates for writing final and graduate theses. Access via the following link:
SOCIAL SCIENCES
Economy
http://baze.nsk.hr/baza/springer-e-journals/
Databases available under a national license:
Remote access to the platform outside the IP network of institutions with access rights can be achieved by selecting a proxy server (on the main menu of the e-sources portal) by entering AAI user data.
Academic Complete is a database that includes more than 150.000 e-book titles with multidisciplinary content, and is available to an unlimited number of users and allows you to download DRM-free book chapters.
The database is also available in the ProQuest One Academic.
You can also search for e-book titles within the Ebook Central database by selecting it on the ProQuest platform. To download an e-book/e-book chapter, it is necessary to create a user account in a simple procedure.
Current Contents Connect (CCC) contains indexes, abstracts and bibliographic data from the latest issues of the world's leading journals in all scientific fields, and with more than 7,000 selected websites. The database can be accessed via the Web of Science interface.
Cambridge e-books are available mainly as part of the Cambridge Companions and Cambridge Histories collections, and the available content also includes a number of additional textbooks within the social sciences and humanities. Titles from 2008 to 2021 are available.
DART – Europe is a portal that unites several collections of doctoral dissertations from European universities. Access to full texts for more than 150,000 dissertations from 17 countries is provided.
The De Gruyter journal collection includes more than 300 journals covering all areas of science, and content from 1995 to 2021 is available.
DOAB – Directory of open access books
DOAB is a community-driven discovery service that indexes and provides access to scholarly, peer-reviewed, open-access books and helps users find reliable open-access book publishers. All DOAB services are free of charge and all data is available free of charge.
DOAJ – Directory of Open Access Journals
DOAJ is a collection of scientific and professional electronic journals in open access. All journals that are included in the collection have been previously checked; Each journal involved must undergo a review process and quality control by the editorial board, must bring scientific content and be publicly available. The database currently includes more than 11,000 journals from 125 countries and covers all areas of science.
DOAR – Directory of Open Access Repositories
OpenDOAR is a directory of institutional repositories in open access (repositories of universities, institutes, etc.). The repositories contain different types of papers: articles, doctoral dissertations, reports...
EBSCOhost is a platform through which EBSCO databases are available, as well as those of other publishers. The platform includes bibliographic databases and databases with full text, and papers in the fields of natural, technical, social sciences and humanities, biotechnical sciences and biomedicine and health can be found.
The following databases are currently available through the EBSCOhost interface:
EconLit is a bibliographic scientific database published by the American Economic Association, which covers the field of economics and business. It includes peer-reviewed articles, working materials from leading universities, doctoral dissertations, books, conference proceedings, and book reviews. The database contains more than 1.5 million records starting in 1886. The database is available on the ProQuest platform.
More than 3,000 e-book titles within the field of social sciences are available on the Emerald Insight platform. After the expiration of the license, all institutions that were included in the license will have a permanent right of access to the 300 most used titles.
Google Scholar offers an easy way to search widely for scholarly literature. Many scientific disciplines from different sources can be searched from one place: peer-reviewed papers, books, abstracts and articles published by academic publishers, professional societies, repositories...
Hamster is a central portal that gathers Croatian scientific and professional journals in open access in one place.
The database contains over 400 journals, more than 12,000 volumes and more than 150,000 published papers with full text covering all scientific fields.
HAW is a collection of content downloaded from the web. It is intended for downloading and permanent preservation of publications from the web as part of Croatian cultural heritage. Archived content can be searched by title, URL, keywords and subject areas.
JSTOR (Journal Storage) is a multidisciplinary scientific database of academic sources that contains various collections of digitized archival issues of journals and provides insight into the full texts of articles in more than 2,600 journals covering 75 scientific disciplines and fields. In addition to journals, more than 7,800 open access e-books are available on JSTOR . The collections Arts & Sciences I – XV are available in the national subscription.
Open Access Theses and Dissertations (OATD)
Open Access Theses and Dissertations (OATD) is a repository of open access theses and dissertations that have been published worldwide. The records include more than 1,100 colleges, universities, and research institutions. OATD currently indexes more than 5 million papers.
Oxford Journals is a collection of academic journals with articles available in full text. It contains more than 200 journal titles covering the fields of humanities and social sciences within the Humanities and Social Sciences collection.
Journals from 1996 – 2022 are available, and the Croatian academic and scientific community retains the permanent right of access to the content from 2021.
Project Muse contains e-journals and e-books in open access within the social sciences and humanities.
ProQuest Central is a platform that provides access to databases covering multidisciplinary content within all scientific fields: economics and business, biomedicine and healthcare, social sciences and humanities, arts, education, science and technology, and religion. The available content includes thousands of scientific and professional journals, newspapers, dissertations, case studies, market reports, and more.
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global (PQDT)
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global (PQDT) is a database of doctoral dissertations and master's theses in which the most advanced ideas from a wide range of represented fields are documented and examples of the latest research are recorded, especially useful for students. It contains approximately 1.7 million complete dissertations and master's theses and 3.8 million abstracts of final theses.
The SAGE Premier collection includes more than 1,100 journals covering the humanities and social sciences, biomedicine and health, engineering and natural sciences.
Journals from 1999 to 2022 are available, and the constituents of the University of Zagreb retain the permanent right of access to the content from 2021.
ScienceDirect is a collection of journals that contains a great source of information for scientists, teachers, students, information professionals, etc. It includes over 14 million publications that include over 3,800 journals, of which about 2,000 are published by Elsevier. The database covers the fields of natural, technical, medical, social sciences and humanities. There are 270 journals available as of 2012, and all articles in open access until the current year are also available.
Social Science Premium Collection
The Social Science Premium Collection database contains full texts, abstracts and indexes scientific articles, books, dissertations, conference proceedings, official and other publications, including more than 2,400 full-text journals.
The database is available through the ProQuest platform.
The Springer Journals collection contains more than 2,000 titles covering all scientific fields with available content from 1997 to 2022.
The Croatian academic and scientific community reserves the right of permanent access to the content from 2021.
Taylor & Francis Subject Collections
Taylor & Francis Subject Collections in National Subscription consists of three subject collections of journals; Social Science & Humanities Library, Science & Technology Library and Medical Library, which contain a total of more than 2,200 journal titles within the social sciences and humanities, natural and technical sciences, and medicine and public health.
Journals from 1997 to 2022 are available, and the Croatian academic and scientific community retains the permanent right to access the content from 2021 of those titles that were subscribed to in previous years.
Web of Science (WoS) is a platform through which citation databases covering all areas of science are available. The platform contains more than 33,000 indexed journals and almost a billion records of cited references, and includes articles, conference proceedings, reports, patents and more.
The following databases are available through the Web of Science interface:
- Web of Science Core Collection (WoS CC):
Arts & Humanities Citation Index (1957. – today)
Book Citation Index– Science (2011. – today)
Book Citation Index– Social Sciences & Humanities (2011. – today)
Conference Proceedings Citation Index- Science (2011. – today)
Conference Proceedings Citation Index- Social Science & Humanities (2011. – today)
Current Chemical Reactions (2011. – today)
Emerging Sources Citation Index (2015. – today)
ESCI Backfiles (2005. – today)
Index Chemicus (2011. – today)
Science Citation Index Expanded (1955. – today)
Social Sciences Citation Index (1955. – today)
- Web of Science Citation Connection:
Biological Abstracts (2011. – today)
BIOSIS Citation Index (2011. – today)
Biosis Previews (2011. – today)
Chinese Science Citation Database (2011. – today)
Current Contents Connect (1998. – today)
Data Citation Index (2011. – today)
Derwent Innovations Index (2011. – today)
KCI – Korean Journal Database (2011. – today)
MEDLINE (1950. – danas)
Russian Science Citation Index (2011. – today)
SciELO Citation Index (2011. – today)
Zoological Records (2011. – today)
Wiley Online Library is a platform through which it is possible to access a multidisciplinary collection containing more than 1,400 journals. The represented journals cover the field of social sciences and humanities, natural and technical sciences and medicine.
Content from 1997 to 2022 is available, and the Croatian academic and scientific community retains the permanent right of access to the content from 2021.
DATABASES IN THE UNIVERSITY'S INDEPENDENT SUBSCRIPTION
The Statista platform brings together national and international statistics and market data with access to more than 1.5 million statistics, forecasts, files, reports and infographics, across 80,000 different topics and 170 multidisciplinary categories.
The platform allows you to download data in various formats, includes automatic citation and easy implementation in presentations, research and other types of papers.
Orbis is a platform that collects detailed financial information on 400 million companies and entities worldwide.
It is the most powerful comparable source of data on private companies.
The World Tourism Organization is a United Nations agency with over 160 members and is the leading international agency in the field of tourism. In its e-library, it offers a rich selection of journals, conference proceedings, books, statistical reports, educational materials, etc.
Useful search engines for the field of economics
Research in Economic Papers – A joint project of more than 100 volunteers from 44 countries that aims to increase the availability of information in the field of economics.
- https://www.econbiz.de/
- https://econpapers.repec.org/
- https://www.zbw.eu/econis-archiv/
- https://www.econstor.eu/?locale=en
- https://fred.stlouisfed.org/
- https://biznar.com/
HUMANITIES
Academic Complete is a database that includes more than 150,000 e-book titles with multidisciplinary content, and is available to an unlimited number of users and allows you to download DRM-free book chapters.
The database is also searchable within ProQuest One Academic.
Archaeology Data Service - ADS
The ADS Library combines bibliographic records and e-prints of published and unpublished archaeological documents. Includes data from the following sources: OASIS, digitized journals and monographs, internet archaeology, publisher content, grey literature scanning projects, grey literature from the ADS archives, British and Irish archaeological bibliographies.
APA PsycInfo is a scientific bibliographic database published by the American Psychological Association (APA) that contains abstracts and more than 4 million records of papers from almost 2,500 journals, dissertations, and books and chapters from books in the field of psychology and related disciplines. The database is accessible through the EBSCOhost interface.
Cambridge e-books are available mainly as part of the Cambridge Companions and Cambridge Histories collections, and the available content also includes a number of additional textbooks within the social sciences and humanities.
DART – Europe is a portal that unites several collections of doctoral dissertations from European universities. Access to full texts for more than 150,000 dissertations from 17 countries is provided.
The De Gruyter journal collection includes more than 300 journals covering all areas of science, and content from 1995 to 2021 is available. Remote access to the De Gruyter platform outside the IP network of institutions with access rights can be achieved by selecting a proxy server (on the main menu of the e-sources portal) by entering AAI user data.
DOAB – Directory of open access books
DOAB is a community-driven discovery service that indexes and provides access to scholarly, peer-reviewed, open-access books and helps users find reliable open-access book publishers. All DOAB services are free of charge and all data is available free of charge.
DOAJ – Directory of Open Access Journals
DOAJ is a collection of scientific and professional electronic journals in open access. All journals that are included in the collection have been previously checked; Each journal involved must undergo a review process and quality control by the editorial board, must bring scientific content and be publicly available. The database currently includes more than 11,000 journals from 125 countries and covers all areas of science.
DOAR – Directory of Open Access Repositories
OpenDOAR is a directory of institutional repositories in open access (repositories of universities, institutes, etc.). The repositories contain different types of papers: articles, doctoral dissertations, reports...
EBSCOhost is a platform through which EBSCO databases are available, as well as those of other publishers. The platform includes bibliographic databases and databases with full text, and papers in the fields of natural, technical, social sciences and humanities, biotechnical sciences and biomedicine and health can be found.
ERIC (Educational Resource Information Center) is a bibliographic database that provides access to literature and resources related to the field of education. It contains data and papers from scientific and professional journals, proceedings and books, reports, etc. ERIC includes more than 1,500,000 records, and includes links to more than 300,000 documents with complete texts from 1966 to the present.
Google Scholar offers an easy way to search widely for scholarly literature. Many scientific disciplines from different sources can be searched from one place: peer-reviewed papers, books, abstracts and articles published by academic publishers, professional societies, repositories...
Hamster is a central portal that gathers Croatian scientific and professional journals in open access in one place.
The database contains over 400 journals, more than 12,000 volumes and more than 150,000 published papers with full text covering all scientific fields.
JSTOR (Journal Storage) is a multidisciplinary scientific database of academic sources that contains various collections of digitized archival issues of journals and provides insight into the full texts of articles in more than 2,600 journals covering 75 scientific disciplines and fields.
Open Access Theses and Dissertations (OATD)
Open Access Theses and Dissertations (OATD) is a repository of open access theses and dissertations that have been published worldwide. The records include more than 1,100 colleges, universities, and research institutions. OATD currently indexes more than 5 million papers.
Oxford Journals is a collection of academic journals with articles available in full text. It contains more than 200 journal titles covering the fields of humanities and social sciences within the Humanities and Social Sciences collection.
Journals from 1996 – 2022 are available, and the Croatian academic and scientific community retains the permanent right of access to the content from 2021.
Project Muse contains e-journals and e-books in open access within the social sciences and humanities.
ProQuest Central is a platform that provides access to databases covering multidisciplinary content within all scientific fields: economics and business, biomedicine and healthcare, social sciences and humanities, arts, education, science and technology, and religion. The available content includes thousands of scientific and professional journals, newspapers, dissertations, case studies, market reports, and more.
The SAGE Premier collection includes more than 1,100 journals covering the humanities and social sciences, biomedicine and health, engineering and natural sciences.
Journals from 1999 to 2022 are available, and the constituents of the University of Zagreb retain the permanent right of access to the content from 2021.
ScienceDirect is a collection of journals that contains a great source of information for scientists, teachers, students, information professionals, etc. It includes over 14 million publications that include over 3,800 journals, of which about 2,000 are published by Elsevier. The database covers the fields of natural, technical, medical, social sciences and humanities.
Social Science Premium Collection
The Social Science Premium Collection database contains full texts, abstracts and indexes scientific articles, books, dissertations, conference proceedings, official and other publications, including more than 2,400 full-text journals.
The Springer Journals collection contains more than 2,000 titles covering all scientific fields with available content from 1997 to 2022.
The Croatian academic and scientific community reserves the right of permanent access to the content from 2021.
Taylor & Francis Subject Collections
Taylor & Francis Subject Collections in National Subscription consists of three subject collections of journals; Social Science & Humanities Library, Science & Technology Library and Medical Library, which contain a total of more than 2,200 journal titles within the social sciences and humanities, natural and technical sciences, and medicine and public health.
Journals from 1997 to 2022 are available, and the Croatian academic and scientific community retains the permanent right of access to the content from 2021 of those titles that were subscribed to in previous years.
Web of Science (WoS) is a platform through which citation databases covering all areas of science are available. The platform contains more than 33,000 indexed journals and almost a billion records of cited references, and includes articles, conference proceedings, reports, patents and more.
Wiley Online Library is a platform through which it is possible to access a multidisciplinary collection containing more than 1,400 journals. The represented journals cover the field of social sciences and humanities, natural and technical sciences and medicine.
Content from 1997 to 2022 is available, and the Croatian academic and scientific community retains the permanent right of access to the content from 2021.
APPLIED SCIENCES
Medicine & Technology
Academic Search Complete (EBSCO)
Full-text database available through the EBSCOhost platform.
AGRICOLA (OVID)
The AGRICOLA Bibliographic Database (AGRICultural OnLine Access) indexes journals in the fields of agronomy, botany, entomology, forestry, food and nutrition, hydrology, environmental protection, zoology, aquaculture and related fields. The content of the database includes over 5 million citations, and in addition to bibliographic records of articles, it also contains records for monographs, dissertations, patents, software, audiovisual materials and other online content.
The publisher publishes more than 40 peer-reviewed journals in open access covering all scientific fields.
Digital library and search engine for scientific literature in computer and information sciences.
Current Contents Connect (CCC) contains indexes, abstracts and bibliographic data from the latest issues of the world's leading journals in all scientific fields, and with more than 7,000 selected websites.
A platform through which EBSCO databases are available, as well as databases from other publishers. It includes bibliographic databases and databases with full text, and papers from the fields of natural, technical, social and humanistic sciences, biotechnical sciences and biomedicine and health can be found.
Bibliographic database.
IEEE/IET Electronic Library (IEL)
Database of articles within the field of electrical engineering, computer science, ICT. It contains more than 5 million full-text documents, more than 190 journals, more than 1,700 conference proceedings, more than 4,600 technical standards and more than 780 books.
MEDLINE (OVID, Web of Knowledge)
The Medline database provides relevant information in the field of biomedicine and healthcare, population and reproductive biology and other areas related to medicine and health care (nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, health systems...). Compiled by the U.S. National Library of Medicine, Medline indexes about 5,000 scientific and professional journals published in more than 80 countries, and has a built-in dictionary of controlled MeSH terms that makes it easy to search.
The collection of journals contains more than 80 titles in the field of biomedicine and natural sciences.
A platform on which all databases of the publisher Ovid Technologies, Inc. (Wolters Kluwer Group) are available. The platform consolidates and offers access to a wide range of databases that provide bibliographic data and access to full texts for specific titles. It covers the fields of biomedicine and healthcare, biotechnology, and natural sciences.
A collection of academic journals with articles available in full text.
A platform for access to databases covering multidisciplinary content within all scientific fields: economics and business, biomedicine and health, social sciences and humanities, arts, education, science and technology, and religion.
Full-text database for medicine and natural sciences.
Science Citation Indeks Expanded – SCI-EXPANDED (WOS)
The bibliographic database indexes more than 8,500 journals in the field of natural, biomedical and technical sciences from 1900 to the present. The database is part of the Web of Science Core Collection and can be accessed through the Web of Science interface.
A collection of journals that contains a large source of information for scholars, teachers, students, information professionals, etc. It includes over 14 million publications that include over 3,800 journals, of which about 2,000 are published by Elsevier. The database covers the fields of natural, technical, medical, social sciences and humanities.
They publish scientific news, commentary and state-of-the-art research within all areas of science with an emphasis on the STEM field.
A citation database that indexes sources from all over the world, and includes more than 70 million records for more than 23,700 peer-reviewed journals (of which more than 4,000 are open access), 300 trade journals from almost all fields of science, more than 600 publishing units, 8 million conference papers and more than 1.4 billion cited references since 1970.
The platform with the Springer Journals collection contains more than 2,000 titles covering all scientific fields.
Publisher of the collections of the journal Science & Technology Library and Medical Library, which contain a total of more than 2,200 journal titles within the natural and technical sciences and medicine and public health.
TRID (the TRIS and ITRD database)
A bibliographic database of transport, including journal articles, books, conference proceedings and technical reports. In total, it contains more than 1.25 million records.
A database of full texts and images on patents maintained by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The database contains complete information on patents from 1976 and visual representations of patents from 1790 to the present.
A platform for access to a multidisciplinary collection containing more than 1,400 journals. The represented journals cover the field of social sciences and humanities, natural and technical sciences and medicine.
A platform through which citation databases covering all areas of science are available. The platform contains more than 33,000 indexed journals and almost a billion records of cited references, and includes articles, conference proceedings, reports, patents and more.
NATURAL SCIENCES
Academic Search Complete (EBSCO)
Full-text database available through the EBSCOhost platform.
The publisher publishes more than 40 peer-reviewed journals in open access covering all scientific fields.
The open-access platform provides information on hazardous chemical substances, mixtures and reactions from trusted sources such as academic, industrial and government organizations around the world, and supports safety in the laboratory when conducting experiments.
The database provides access to the structure and nomenclature for the identification of chemical compounds cited in NLM (National Library of Medicine) databases. The database contains over 400,000 records, of which over 300,000 include chemical structures.
arXiv is an open access archive for scientific articles in the fields of physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance, statistics, electrical engineering and systems science, and economics.
A platform through which EBSCO databases are available, as well as databases from other publishers. The platform includes bibliographic databases and databases with full text, and papers in the fields of natural, technical, social sciences and humanities, biotechnical sciences and biomedicine and health can be found.
INIS – International Nuclear Information System
Full-text database.
The Institute of Physics Journals Collection contains more than 100 scientific journals and more than 430,000 full-text academic articles in the fields of physics, medical physics, biophysics, mathematics, chemistry, astronomy, astrophysics and related fields.
Mathematical Reviews, a bibliographic database of the American Mathematical Society. It provides access to more than 3 million indexed publications, abstracts and bibliographic data from the scientific literature on mathematics, as well as 2 million direct links to original articles contained in more than 1,800 journals.
The collection of journals contains more than 80 titles in the field of biomedicine and natural sciences.
A platform on which all databases of the publisher Ovid Technologies, Inc. (Wolters Kluwer Group) are available. It gives access to a number of databases that provide bibliographic data and access to full texts for certain titles. It covers the fields of biomedicine and healthcare, biotechnology, and natural sciences.
Full-text database.
A platform that provides access to databases covering multidisciplinary content within all scientific fields: economics and business, biomedicine and health, social sciences and humanities, arts, education, science and technology, and religion.
Science Citation Indeks Expanded – SCI-EXPANDED (WOS)
A bibliographic database, it indexes more than 8,500 journals in the field of natural, biomedical and technical sciences from 1900 to the present. The database is part of the Web of Science Core Collection and can be accessed through the Web of Science interface.
A collection of journals that contains a large source of information for scholars, teachers, students, information professionals, etc. It includes over 14 million publications that include over 3,800 journals, of which about 2,000 are published by Elsevier. The database covers the fields of natural, technical, medical, social sciences and humanities.
They publish scientific news, commentary and state-of-the-art research within all areas of science with an emphasis on the STEM field.
A platform that provides an overview of relevant literature in the field of chemistry, biochemistry, chemical engineering and other related scientific fields and disciplines, and also contains a comprehensive list of chemical substances, reactions and compounds. The condition of access is the registration of the user, and after registration, the application is required every time.
A citation database that indexes sources from all over the world, and includes more than 70 million records for more than 23,700 peer-reviewed journals (of which more than 4,000 are open access), 300 trade journals from almost all fields of science, more than 600 publishing units, 8 million conference papers and more than 1.4 billion cited references since 1970.
The Springer Journals collection contains more than 2,000 titles covering all scientific fields with available content from 1997 to 2022.
The collections of the journal Science & Technology Library and Medical Library, which contain a total of more than 2,200 journal titles within the natural and technical sciences and medicine and public health.
A platform that gives access to a multidisciplinary collection containing more than 1,400 journals. The represented journals cover the field of social sciences and humanities, natural and technical sciences and medicine.
A platform through which citation databases covering all areas of science are available. The platform contains more than 33,000 indexed journals and almost a billion records of cited references, and includes articles, conference proceedings, reports, patents and more.
